China Is Pressing Women to Have More Babies. Many Are Saying No

The reality is that in so many countries is that it is too expensive to have more kids than 1 or 2. You have both parents working, living in an expensive place, paying for day care, buying a bigger car, etc.. you end up needing to be well above middle class to actually afford 3-4 kids.. then when you factor in university, then you basically need to win the lottery or your kids end up with tons of debt. And in many cities in China you effectively are an immigrant in your own country trying to become a resident where you can access the cities better healthcare system and schools etc.. so people have a big incentive to want to live in the bigger more expensive cities. (Which ends up making it more likely people will have fewer kids)

That graph is impressively steep… ~18 million to ~9 million in ~6 years! That’s a massive cultural shift in a really short timescale, most birth rate changes are slow declines over decades. I wonder what changed in 2015 to start this ?

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Does their demographic cliff have any implication on a war over Taiwan? I would imagine at the moment that China can&#x27;t spare young people for the time being.

It’s an authoritarian state. They could actually just effectively mandate that each woman has to have two kids if medically possible.

It seems curbing natality is the easy part, despite all doomerism around population explosion. To raise it back when needed not so simple.

If we want to address climate change, we have to acknowledge that having children is the most environmentally destructive action you can possibly take. The message governments should be sending is &quot;don&#x27;t have children.&quot; 8 billion is too many. I heard from somewhere that if everybody on Earth lived a first world lifestyle, we would quickly deplete all of the available resources.<p>Population decline is our chance to rebalance ourselves with nature.